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Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: I was on an interview with him up in New York. And I related this story when this interviewer was indicating, and I said, "No, Johnson is a civil libertarian. I've seen him take stands that really tested him." And I related what I've just said here
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)

or anything, but it's a good hooker. Okay. I don't have any more to do with him that I know of. Somewhere back there in 1960, I don't know how this came about, I signed a full-page ad for the New York Times for the Kennedy-Johnson ticket. The Nation's
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, the man who had beaten me with most of the organized, political leaders was elected to the House. I had had the desire, I guess, to kind of forget it all and my wife and I went to New York to see some shows, then we dropped back by Washington to see what
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

lowed my job to the Neltl York Times. I wrote an article in the fall; I guess, of 1965 in the New York Times, which they with their characteristic banality entitled-it was in the Times Magazine--"A Professor Votes for Mr. Johnson." In it I tried
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

have a flag!" That's how primitive it was. The idea of me scurrying off to New York overnight and producing a half-hour network color television show of the President supporting Humphrey in one day is still unbelievable to some of my broadcast
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to move on it. So what happened was the next day, as I recall, the New York Times had two announcements on its front page. One, the American initiative about extending the DMZ in an effort to de-escalate the thing, and the other that we'd bombed a new
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in June of 1965 to succeed Stephen Ailes. Earlier in 1965 you had been appointed Under Secretary of the Army and prior to that you were an attorney in New York and also active in Republican politics. R: Substantially correct. Is this information

Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and their house in New York and their place at Majorca,and they're looking forward to going back the next summer . Well, you can't run the government like that . You've got to come prepared to stay with it . F: They sort of like the trappings of office rather
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Val M. Keating, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was a great cusser--"I don't have to pray with her." I held the job from beginning to end. G: Did you grow up in E1 Paso? K: No, I came directly from New York City, but I was raised in St. Paul, Minnesota. G: You were with the Texas Relief Commission
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. He was sitting on a dais with Nelson Rockefeller and Nelson Rockefeller was talking to him, put his arm around him, and they walked away. Lyndon Baines Johnson. That's the last time I saw That's a Catholic dinner in New York. G: Is there anything
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Service Commission branch offices, which are also regional headquarters for the U.S. government civil service. I believe Dallas was one, Denver was one, Kansas City was one, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of criticism as well as hope, and I gave it to Nick [Katzenbach]. It was just at that time, around March of 1966, that the President called me up in New York, where I was attending a Columbia Law School Board of Visitors seminar, and asked me to serve as chief
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 25 (XXV), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

] Humphrey that day, and the night before I had the big dinner in New York at the Century Association on the legislative program for 1968. G: Was this at all tied in to his feeling about communist subversion and the anti-war movement? LBJ Presidential
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, with the nature of the democratic society, with our country, that this might have been quite different. really. You realize that he has never visited the West, He visited France once for three days, and he came to the U n i t e d Nations in New York the year

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 10 (X), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in New York was lowered, except the federal flags, already. Flags all over the country, including Washington, were lowered except the federal flags, which cannot just be arbitrarily lowered. Somebody has to say, "Lower them." Even the District of Columbia
assassination; the occasional need to make sure the president understands the situation about which he is making a decision; the president's authority in lawmaking; interagency action; the 1967 New Town in Town program at Fort Lincoln in Washington, D.C
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

if it were to feed itself.Lyndon Johnson assigned Secretary of Agriculture [Orville] Freeman the task of requiring India to take major new steps in the agricultural field as a condition for any substantial food assistance from the United States.Now, he
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and check the weathers and then he'd test us like, "Well, what's the weather going to be like in New York?" or where we're going. Of course, you'd better be right. G: He knew the answer before he asked you. T: But he would [inaudible] and occasionally he
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 3 (III), 5/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

accredited President Kennedy with. And I think that that's true. I think if one looks back, Bobby's whole carpet bagging to New York kind of issue was an interesting ploy. G: Do you think he realized that the wound was mortal at the time at the White House
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 3 (III), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to, and there are roughly a hundred of the heads of the biggest banks in the country there. Joe Fowler came down there and we set up a series of meetings with bankers from various sections of the country--you had New York, you had California, you might have Michigan
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, and then this man journeys to Washington, New York, or elsewhere to turn the cards in and actually participates by conduct in what is an impedance and a hindrance to the Selective Service System, that's in our view not protected speech; it's not symbolic conduct

Oral history transcript, Ronald Goldfarb, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

associated with the War on Poverty. I understand that you are originally from New York or New Jersey. Do you want to explain how you got involved in the administration? RG: Yes. I was working in the Department of Justice during the Kennedy
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Marie Lindau Olson, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

like, say, New York. G: Did he feel that there was a lot of red tape in Washington, I wonder, did he think they were too slow in approving? O: Well, not really, I think they were anxious to do a good job, too, so they'd get the congressional
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

by us is the highway system because we sure did get to work building one giant one across the United States. That was the spring, I think, that A.W. and Mary Alice Moursund and Melvin and Nita Winters came up to visit us, and we went to New York. We all
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 24 (XXIV), 3/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that would pass sometime in 1966 that would need at best a half a year's start-up money in that fiscal year. So the new legislation didn't have a lot of impact on the budget, even something as extraordinary as Model Cities. On drafting the message itself
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Boston, Connecticut, New Jersey and New York. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh It was fairly good, but Johnson is such a tinker
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

naivete I thought, flak you have to go through." '~ell, this is just a little But he told me the Sunday night before he left office when the bulldog edition of the Washington Post came out with a particularly gory story in it, he said, "Now, I'll tell
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

four feet? G: Did you read the coverage it was getting in the New York Times? A: I read a fair amount of it; I didn't read it all. G: What did you think of the way the major papers covered the trial? A: It improved with age, and I think it's
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Boatner -- III -- 7 G: B: Did he listen in silence, or did he give his own commentaries on the news? He might have a pungent word or two to throw in if it was something that he
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

And the Austin district then was more of a New Deal district than most districts in Texas. too much of it; I read about it of course. him speak in the campaign. I didn't watch And I don't recall hearing I don't know whether I heard any of the speeches
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and Lee School. I University and to Harvard Business I got s ornewhat disturbed about Mr. Roosevelt l s packing of the SupJ;lerne Court. ,\ After I left Harvard and went to work in New York just before the war, I was introduced to Wendell Wilkie
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to refresh my recollections. G: LBJ moved into that new office, the Capitol office, P-38. Let me ask you to just describe it and the circumstances around his acquiring that office. R: I'm not too sure of the circ1.111stances under which he acquired
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in on November 11, 1966. I came from Rochester, New York, where I had been for some time previous connected with the Xerox Corporation and a practicing lawyer. I was chairman of the Board of Xerox and had been General Counsel and Chairman of the Executive

Oral history transcript, Michael E. DeBakey, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

long-distance call from New York. Jack Valenti came in, and he said, IIThere's a long-distance call here that I think you better take. It's from a doctor in New York, and it's about the Duke of Hindsor." So I went to another room and answered
Biographical information; time in New Orleans at Tulane University; studying in Europe; member of the Department of Surgery at Tulane; military service in 1942-1944 with the Surgeon General; post-war medical research program with the Veterans
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of New York, a Republican mayor, which he was at that time, would be coming into his city, a Democrat, and he would be subject to criticism. It was then that I got my first clear view of the politics of what was going on or the fear of it. In a quite
sources of information, such as the Office of Economic Opportunity and Tom Bradley; visiting Newark, New Jersey, to talk to citizens about rioting; John Lindsay's involvement with the Commission; the chain of command within the Commission; late night/early
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. Mulhollan PLACE: Mr. Bundy's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by way of identification. You are McGeorge Bundy, currently president of the Ford Foundation. Your government service, insofar as President Johnson's administration
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

for monetary affairs. He came out of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and had a wide acquaintanceship already with some of the people that he was going to meet with in Europe. VanLennap is one that I have mentioned; Ottmar Emminger of the Bundes Bank

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

different than New York But they had been collecting their dues on a national basis, so it meant big, big bucks to them. G: I notice he got, as you say, all forty-eight of the Democrats to vote together. B: It helped him. No, no. Did he make
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. One, it is unique in its visibility. With the possible exception of New York, there is no city as visible in the nation or the world as Washington, D.C. As the mayor says, whenever two bumpers hit, it's heard around the world in Washington, D.C
; initiative for ordinances or legislation in D.C. government; Cloud 9 concept; new D.C. government; urban problems; D.C.'s preparation for marches; April riots after MLK assassination; Brookings study; prevention of riots; gun legislation; Resurrection City
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, and I guess we had lunch. And I was very stubborn about this, and I called NBC in New York and found that the man who was the president of NBC at the time, named Robert Kintner, who later went to work for the President as the secretary of the cabinet
on White House influence on news coverage, LBJ’s response to critical press coverage, preferential treatment to certain newsmen, LBJ’s decision on to run, 1968 convention, LBJ’s way of helping departing staff members, Vietnam, the effect of daily
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Executive Committee. M: Yes. I was not there. was there. I was in New York, but my business associate Yes,- it ,vas very wild, I understand. B: Of course, Johnson was certified by one vote-- M: One vote. Charlie Gibson's vote from Amarillo, who
Biographical information; first meeting LBJ; LBJ’s liberal and New Deal identification; Gerald Mann; President’s court packing plan; 1948 bitter campaign; Taft-Hartley Law; Horace; Busby; Roy Wade; Walter Jenkins; John Connally; Sam Houston Johnson
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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